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JAMES DEAGAN, city marshal, was born in 1849 in Wood county, Ohio. His father, Matthew, was a native of Ireland, and came to this country many years ago. His mother, Catharine, nee Higgins, was also a native of Ireland. James Deagan was reared and educated in Ohio. He learned the woolen business, and engaged in it at Terre Haute, Indiana, until 1872, when he took charge of the Carthage Woolen Mills, remaining in charge until it burned down, in January, 1882. At the spring election of the same year he was elected city marshal of Carthage, which position he now fills. Mr. Deagan enlisted in Company E, of the One Hundred and Thirty-third Indiana Regiment, in 1863, serving three months. He afterwards re-enlisted in 1864, in the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Indiana Regiment, under Colonel Fairbanks, now of Joplin, serving until the close of the war. Mr. Deagan is a member of the A. O. U. W. He was married in 1876 to Miss Agnes Weir, of Illinois. Mr. Deagan is a member of the Carthage Light Guards, he is a charter member, and was chosen first sergeant at the organization, and subsequently served both as second and first lieutenant. He has also been a member of the fire department since its organization in 1872. He is president of both these organizations. He was elected city marshal by 145 Democratic majority, the city vote being republican. Some men are born to control municipal affairs in their fitness by natural selection, or the survival of the fittest; at least in politics Mr. Deagan evidently is a man, not of a party, but of and for the people.